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Jay Eskay

@jshykta.bsky.social
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Mum; nerd; internationally recognized gender traitor (they/she). I get sat on by cats a lot. 💛🤍💜🖤// ❤️💜💙 // 🌶🧠 // 😷 I don't follow back, and you shouldn't either. Meanjin, Australia.

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A secret third thing @secretthirdthing.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
like, in the past 5 years the average person's understanding of trans people went from "so and so got a sex change" to "sex is an immutable and unalterable force of the universe, but some people like to play pretend" And like... its such weird magical thinking that even "allies" got on board with
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A secret third thing @secretthirdthing.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
"we will keep marching towards progress" my guy, we have gone like 50 years backwards actually. we are losing rights that were already won a long time ago actually
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.
news articles about trans people based on keyword, left is cnn, right is fox. fox has  10x as many
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DanglinDon @danglindon.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
On this #TransDayofVisibility, if you're seeking an authoritative collection of TransJoy, look no further than "We Deserve This. A Transfeminine Automotive Lookbook" [Carrara, 2024], by @victoriascott.bsky.social. Truly a love-letter, & one everybody ought to read
Vicki's book "We Deserve This" set-out over a table that's been draped with a granny-square-afghan
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amy forest @amyforest.pds.pub.moe · 31/03/2026
I got banned from twitter in 2023 for this drawing. They called it "violent speech". It had over 40K likes and too many comments for me to read before my ban, but I still see it floating around here and there. Save a copy, and use it freely. No attribution needed. Love u #transdayofvisibility #tdov
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
apparently Wikipedia has more rigorous standards than every university on the planet, university administrators, edtech enthusiasts, (certainly more than) AI bros, several prominent academic journals, and too many professors and teachers
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Cloudy🐈 @hellocloudy.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
hey, i made a terrible comic instead of working #makeaterriblecomicday2025
panel 1: a person is pointing on a bed where cats are lying in a way that leaves a vaguely human outline in the middle, saying "this is my hole!! it was made for me!!
panel 2: a twisted shape of a person lies on the bed, screaling silently as the cats sleep peacefully in random positions
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Jay Eskay @jshykta.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Me: "AI company asks AI to do unethical thing, publishes press release when it does. Are we trying to avert or immanentize the Torment Nexus, anyway?" @aaronsofaer.bsky.social: "All of the "AI" companies are trying to immanentize the Torment Nexus and most of them will even admit it out loud."
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Jay Eskay @jshykta.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Shock! Groundbreaking New Study Finds The Same Thing As The Last Three
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Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
'Every accusation is a confession' is still the best model we have of their collective mind.
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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
low key convinced all the talk about how to reset your nervous system is capitalist propaganda tbh
Goose chase meme:
WHY DOES MY NERVOUS SYSTEM NEED TO BE RESET

WHAT'S
UPSETTING IT
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Janelle Shane @janelleshane.com · 19/12/2025
Highly amused by the stories of companies using agentic AI chatbots to run their internal company stores, only for their employees to immediately Bugs Bunny the chatbot into giving them free stuff www.aiweirdness.com/when-a-chatb...
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When a chatbot runs your store
You may have heard of "agentic AI", which is basically the idea that you can hook up a large language model to controls that do real things. The controls might run internet searches, run commands to o...
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Mike Toole @miketoole.com · 21/12/2025
'bugs bunnying' is the perfect term, because it invariably involves doing almost literally this to an LLM chatbot
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VƎX Werewolf @vexwerewolf.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
If you're not trans, I don't think I can fully explain how important this is. It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.
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wwxwashere.bsky.social @wwxwashere.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
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battybutts ➡️ PAWCON @battybutts.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Yea
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Weird Alex @jackalpants.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
If you're cis, trans people are your coalmine canary for a collection of civil liberties. BODILY AUTONOMY: does your body belong to you, or to your parents/husband/state? PRIVACY: do you owe everyone you meet a full medical history? EXPRESSION: to what extent is your clothing a legal matter?
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
had to see what this disambiguation hatnote was about and sure enough, apple's original thumbnail (before they fixed it):
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Mitch Dyer @mitchyd.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
If only everyone could have predicted this www.thegamer.com/ea-generativ...
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EA's AI Game Development Tools Are Apparently So Bad That It's Costing More Money To Fix Their Mistakes
A new report suggests that EA's pivot to AI is just causing costly mistakes, and the developers hate it.
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Vincent Becherer (BOARD ARTIST AVAILABLE FOR WORK!) @vincentbecherer.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
“I’m not worried AI will take my job. I’m worried some executive or management person is going to *think* it can.” -Random YouTube comment
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Axel Bruns @snurb.info · 13/10/2025
Precisely. Banning young people from social media just so ill-informed boomers can get over their made-up moral panic simply ends up harming the most vulnerable, for whom social media are a critical lifeline. 👇👇👇
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LGBTQIA+ advocates say social media ban will 'cut off' regional queer teens
LGBTIQA+ advocates are concerned the social media ban will have a significant impact on queer youth in regional and remote areas of Australia. They say there are not enough offline, physical supports for these teens to access when the ban comes into effect. 
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
How about "RBA companies' utter incompetence at raising productivity means they will have to accept lower profit growth"
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
How about no.
AFR headline: RBA says Australians will have to accept lower wages growth
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Dredgen Dale @xn--eck9c3e.zone · 14/10/2025
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Liz Saila @lizsaila.northsky.social · 05/10/2025
Your periodic reminder that "biological sex" is a propaganda term spread by anti-trans groups, largely pushed by Christian Nationalists orgs like Alliance Defending Freedom; Family Resource Council & Family Policy Alliance; and the Heritage Foundation. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Sex and Gender Definitions in Legislation
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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 05/10/2025
I accidentally glitched out an animation I was working on and created a perfect example of what the passage of time feels like to someone with ADHD
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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Today's article is about a form of bad-faith speech somewhat akin to bullshit, which I'm calling (because why not) wank. I don't quite think I've focused the ideas down as much as I can, but I think it says some interesting things regardless:
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An essay on wank | deadSimpleTech
This captures well the uncomfortable, slightly disorienting feeling that wank creates when you're subjected to it, wherein you're expected to speak about and think about the statement as though it say...
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
These are all people who wanted to kill their enemies before Charlie Kirk was shot, are more vocal about it now, and will keep lusting for it long after Charlie Kirk has been buried. Today’s biggest event could have been a dog farting and they would have reacted by wanting you dead.
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the moon report 🌘 @seachanger.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
people still think that showing neo-fascists the respect we wish they would show us will somehow teach them to do better or compel them to stop hurting us this is flawed logic & morally repugnant, let it go
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
It’s fine to say that violence is never the answer, but I can’t help but observe that for Charlie Kirk violence was always the answer, and it was the only answer he offered, and, because of the privilege that he refused to admit he had, he could enact it from a comfortable and respectable place.
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Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 25/07/2025
Summary thread & call to action on payment processor censorship, and why it's become a big issue among in the LGBTQ community and among artists. Lobbied by conservative activists, payment processing companies have pressured businesses into removing games, books, etc from online stores. 1/
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Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 25/07/2025
There is a counter-campaign to call the payment processors and demand they reverse the censorship, see here for who to call and write bsky.app/profile/melt... 10/
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Oh Joy Sex Toy @ohjoysextoy.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
When Jude and Lizzie re-meet at a house party, they practically don't recognize each other. In fact, they have to re-introduce themselves with their new names! Read this sweet story by @fizzfloat.bsky.social about reconnecting with old friends as your true self. www.ohjoysextoy.com/meeting-agai...
"Meeting Again" by Joey Hagan, published on ohjoysextoy.com 7/22/2025

Joey Hagan draws with a thin line in a detailed, cartoon-y/manga-y style. He uses a color palette of rich blues, purples, magentas, and teal.

On a crowded dance floor, the ocean of blue-lighted people parts just enough to reveal Jude in a bright pink light. As a transmasculine person, Jude uses all pronouns for themself, alternating between them, even in the same sentence. She wears locs in a mullet style and circular glasses, headphones, a septum ring, and snake bites against their maroon-purple skin. He wears a hoodie, t-shirt, and cargo pants. They peer straight at the viewer, studying them. 

Across the room, the exact scenario plays out with Lizzie, who is revealed in pink light among a mass of blue-lighted dancers while the music thumps. Transfeminine and nonbinary (using she/they pronouns), she has long, wavy hair with side bangs that brush against her pale pink skin. They are wearing a dress layered over a shirt and leggings. She has dangly puffball earrings and a nostril piercing. She also looks straight to the reader, with an expression of surprise. 
"Oh, my God..." Jude marvels to Lizzie while pulling off his headphones. "It IS you!" The two are now standing next to each other, the dark, dancing crowd replaced with a bright white background and their former high school IDs blown up huge behind them. Jude's shows a younger version of themself with shoulder-length straight hair and no piercings, while Lizzie's shows her younger self with a mop of fluffy curly hair partially obscuring her eyes and wearing a masculine top with a thick collar. 

"No way..." The modern day Lizzie replies in amazed yet delighted surprise. 

Caption: Read the rest on OhJoySexToy.com
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Melinda Tankard Reist is on the advisory board of Australia’s age assurance tech trial
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
I have a banger thread on informal feminized labor and "male loneliness epidemic discourse" cooked up in my head, but I can't get my kids to leave me along long enough for me to write it
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
We are not lonely because we COULD NOT SURVIVE THIS alone. For a lot of men, loneliness is a problem, sure, but a problem borne of relative privilege. They are not in relationship because their survival (and/or the survival of their children) does not hinge on existing in relationship.
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Anarchy Goose @anarchygoose.northsky.social · 16/07/2025
Visa and Mastercard should not have control over speech and it's very strange this is a position that even needs to be argued.
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Lindsay @neomeruru.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
streaming services: [high monthly fee incentivizes waiting until a series is finished before subscribing to binge] also streaming services: “this series didn’t perform well enough right out the gate, so we’re cancelling it before the season’s even over”
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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 10/07/2025
i think lauren is being rhetorical here but iirc there's some significant feminist thought on the way pre-"AI"/proto-"AI" "personal assistants" are always by default "women"
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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 10/07/2025
now that i think of it, with claude, grok and chatgpt, they basically stopped making them woman-coded like siri as soon as they wanted them to act like topic based authorities
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11/07/2025
Bezos is considering purchasing Conde Nast as a present to his now wife. Conde Nast owns not just Vogue but also Wired. Apparently, purchasing media to turn it into a propaganda organ is now the latest nuptial gift among the oligarchs. I'm going to become the joker. www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...
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Jeff Bezos Rumored To Buy Vogue as Wedding Gift to Lauren Sanchez, ‘Source’ Claims
One of the final steps in Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez‘s wedding could be the billionaire buying Vogue as a gift for his wife. After Sanchez’s big feature on the fashion magazine’s cover, sources cla...
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Jay Eskay @jshykta.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Unsurprising - writing code is easy; reading and *debugging* code is hard.
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METR @metr.org · 10/07/2025
We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
X’s head of product posted yesterday in the pre-dawn hours that he works in “an office where Al researchers are building the Antichrist”:
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Going from an office where Al researchers are building the Antichrist to my living room where my girlfriend is watching Love Island is one of the most drastic transitions in the known universe
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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/07/2025
being able to see commits to the racism dial in real time is not the future I wanted
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 05/07/2025
Oh this is. Oh I had not realised this but BINGO. That’s it. I would read a couple thousand words of somebody exploring the connection between labour (and the USA republicans tbf) focusing on ‘saving’ manufacturing, mining, etc because of gender implications
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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
“Hi everyone, I just need to be clear my priority is revoking access as quickly as possible for this participant,” NDIA chief executive Rebecca Falkingham wrote to senior colleagues on June 7 last year. “All other issues are a second-order priority.”
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Nick Frichette @frichetten.com · 04/07/2025
This wasn’t a joke btw. It works. You’d be surprised how much uwu breaks guardrail implementations.
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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
It’s absolutely critical that the Albanese govt holds firm against the attacks on the PBS by US pharma. That includes protecting generics. Affordable medicines are key to our universal health system.
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